top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-12-20

Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/

14 years ago

525 upvotes – 137 comments

The Basement

http://cabel.me/2012/12/19/the-basement

14 years ago

486 upvotes – 36 comments

JetBrains Doomsday Sale - 75% off for 24 hours only

http://www.jetbrains.com/specials/

14 years ago

367 upvotes – 380 comments

When I first heard the name "Safari"

http://donmelton.com/2012/12/19/when-i-first-heard-the-name-safari/

14 years ago

350 upvotes – 177 comments

MIT discovers a new state of matter, a new kind of magnetism

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/143782-mit-discovers-a-new-state-of-matter-a-new-kind-of-magnetism

14 years ago

309 upvotes – 51 comments

PlainSite Exposes 2,000 Intellectual Ventures Shell Companies

http://www.plainsite.org/articles/article.html?id=2

14 years ago

298 upvotes – 86 comments

Congress Is Quietly Abandoning the 5th Amendment

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/12/scandal-alert-congress-is-quietly-abandoning-the-5th-amendment/266498/

14 years ago

296 upvotes – 193 comments

Engineering Pornography (2002)

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/

14 years ago

235 upvotes – 77 comments

Nate Silver confuses cause and effect, ends up defending corruption

http://mathbabe.org/2012/12/20/nate-silver-confuses-cause-and-effect-ends-up-defending-corruption/

14 years ago

232 upvotes – 79 comments

Wikipedia doesn't need your money

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia_chugging/

14 years ago

229 upvotes – 154 comments

Help HN: Developer laid off 5 days before Christmas, have kids

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4949556

14 years ago

224 upvotes – 127 comments

Rice Cooker Hacks - The Ebert Way

http://priceonomics.com/rice-cookers/

14 years ago

219 upvotes – 208 comments

An Interactive Guide To The Fourier Transform

http://betterexplained.com/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-the-fourier-transform/

14 years ago

218 upvotes – 25 comments

Steam for Linux Beta is now open to the public

http://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1747660173332716773

14 years ago

206 upvotes – 74 comments

Show HN: Ember Table by Addepar

http://addepar.github.com/ember-table/

14 years ago

199 upvotes – 49 comments

RethinkDB 1.3 is out, now available on OS X

http://www.rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-13-release/

14 years ago

178 upvotes – 58 comments

Apple kills a Kickstarter project

http://venturebeat.com/2012/12/20/apple-kills-a-kickstarter-project-portable-power-project-pop-refunding-139170-to-backers

14 years ago

177 upvotes – 194 comments

Draw.io Doomsday sale - 100% off for 24 hours

https://www.draw.io/about.html

14 years ago

176 upvotes – 63 comments

Math Professor Invents Non-Reversing Mirror

http://www.techfragments.com/1774/inventions-non-reverse-mirror/

14 years ago

154 upvotes – 78 comments

Tcl/Tk 8.6 released (now stackless, w/coroutines, tailcalls, and more)

http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.6.html

14 years ago

144 upvotes – 39 comments

Spoiler Alert: First 3-D Printed Records Sound Awful

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/12/3-d-printed-record/

14 years ago

130 upvotes – 60 comments

The Instagram Effect: National Geographic Suspends Its Popular Account

http://www.fastcompany.com/3004148/instagram-effect-national-geographic-suspends-its-popular-account

14 years ago

126 upvotes – 36 comments

Explain SQL injection without technical jargon

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/25684/how-can-i-explain-sql-injection-without-technical-jargon#answer-25710

14 years ago

121 upvotes – 49 comments

Adobe acquires Behance

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/20/adobe-acquires-behance/

14 years ago

110 upvotes – 14 comments

Show HN: ppl - The Command Line Address Book

http://ppladdressbook.org/

14 years ago

106 upvotes – 54 comments

Ask HN: Salary Increases Over Time

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4946748

14 years ago

102 upvotes – 91 comments

IFTTT raises $7M from Andreessen Horowitz, NEA and Lerer

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/20/ifttt-gets-7m-from-andreessen-horowitz-nea-and-lerer-to-connect-all-of-our-internet-silos/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=social%20media&awesm=tnw.to_e0THg&utm_medium=Spreadus

14 years ago

97 upvotes – 40 comments

F# from your browser

http://test.tryfsharp.org/Create

14 years ago

88 upvotes – 35 comments

HTML5 Bones: The template that goes back to basics

http://html5bones.com/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 33 comments

A hardware lesson for software devs: from logical gates to the game of life

http://alon.horev.net/blog/2012/12/03/a-hardware-lesson-for-software-developers-from-logical-gates-to-the-game-of-life/

14 years ago

84 upvotes – 24 comments

Functional Programming Principles in Scala: Impressions and Statistics

http://docs.scala-lang.org/news/functional-programming-principles-in-scala-impressions-and-statistics.html

14 years ago

80 upvotes – 16 comments

Leaving Facebookistan

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/05/leaving-facebookistan.html

14 years ago

75 upvotes – 18 comments

Photography’s Third Act

http://dcurt.is/photos-for-communication

14 years ago

66 upvotes – 48 comments

Juggling by numbers: How notation revealed new tricks

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20728493

14 years ago

65 upvotes – 40 comments

ClojureScript Compiler Compiled with ClojureScript

https://github.com/kanaka/clojurescript

14 years ago

★ 189 Clojure
63 upvotes – 8 comments

Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming

http://boingboing.net/2012/12/18/python-for-kids-a-playful-int.html

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 15 comments

Getting hyper about hypermedia APIs

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3373-getting-hyper-about-hypermedia-apis

14 years ago

61 upvotes – 71 comments

The Ecological Fallacy

http://blog.statwing.com/the-ecological-fallacy/

14 years ago

60 upvotes – 20 comments
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